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# SECTION DCLASSIFICATIONNARRATIVE COMMENTSIndicate significant strengths or weaknesses demonstrated in current position keeping in proper perspective their relationship to overall performance. State suggestions made for improvement of work performance; Give recommendations for training. Comment on foreign language competence, if required for current position. Amplify or explain ratings given in Section C to provide best basis for determining future personnel action. Manner of performance of managerial or supervisory duties and cost consciousness in the use of personnel, space, equipment and funds, must be commented on, if applicable. If extra space is needed to complete Section D, attach a separate sheet of paper.The merger of units which created the Information Services Staff brought Mr. Randall and his staff under my supervision for the first time. Prior to that we had been colleagues in Services Staff, whose chief wrote Mr. Randall's Fitness Report. No change in function accompanied the change in organization, however, and the praise contained in those earlier reports could be echoed here.During 1977, Mr. Randall and his group have continued to render this Directorate outstanding service in an arena where there is little glory but the constant threat of disaster. In the preparation of materials for release under FOIA, the Privacy Act or E.0. 11652, the researcher treads a fine, barely visible line between protection of operational secrets and revelation of material properly releasable under the law. He is denied the easy choice of over-protection because each decision is subject to the scrutiny of the courts, and the Agency's credibility is on the line each time a judge challenges a deletion or the denial of a document. (That credibility is apparently quite high in the courts. We have yet to be reversed in appeals cases on information denied by PIAG on grounds of classification or sources/methods.) The research on which we rely is almost autonomous; reviews of finished cases are necessarily Limited and (cont'd# SECTION ECERTIFICATION AND COMMENTSMONTHS EMPLOYER HAS BEEN UNDER MY SUPERVISION1. BY SUPERVISORIF THIS REPORT HAS NOT BEEN SHOWN TO EMPLOYEE, GIVE EXPLANATIONDATEOFFICIAL TITLE OF SUPERVISOR12 January 1978 Deputy Chief, ISSTYPED OR PRINTED NAME AND SIGNATUREBruce JohnsonI HAVE [ ] OR HAVE NOT [X] ATTACHED A STATEMENT CONCERNING THE SUPERVISOR'S EVALUATION OF MY PERFORMANCE.DATE2. BY EMPLOYEE13/1/78SIGNATURE OF EMPLOYEEFrederic C Randall3. BY REVIEWING OFFICIALCOMMENTS OF REVIEWING OFFICIALI think it is important first to echo the remarks in the last paragraph of the narrative above. Mr. Randall is an exceptionally proficient performer in a position that few other DO officers want to occupy. The DO is fortunate to have a person of his caliber handling FOIA and related matters.As I see his performance, Mr. Randall has made a significant effort in advancing national intelligence objectives by doing everything possible to protect DO "sources and methods." He has represented us exceedingly well in this area and as a result, to his credit, little has gotten away through the FOIA channel. The way things are organized,DATEOFFICIAL TITLE OF REVIEWING OFFICIALInformation Services Staff16 January 1978 Chief,TYPED OR PRINTED NAME AND SIGNATUREWilliam F. Donnelly4. BY EMPLOYEESIGNATURE OF EMPLOYEECLASSIFICATIONFrederic C Randall